Abstract
I The present investigation was carried out to obtain information on making clothes at individual homes in order to make the teaching program of greater value in Home Economics education at schools. Three areas, Hiroshima, Tokyo, and Iwate, were selected for the investigation.
In this report, the following points will be discussed :
(1) the state of the families investigated, (2) the person who mainly sews for the family members, and (3) the number of homemade clothes per year and per month.
II The investigation was made in November, 1967, and the data on item (3) was obtained for the year from November, 1966, through October, 1967. A questionnaire was administered to 1, 800 families in the three areas, and effective answers were collected from 84% of the families.
III Concerning item (1), the survey showed that there were 5.34 persons in a family on an average, and there were some regional features in their occupations. Concerning item (2), the correlation between the academic background and means of achieving sewing techniques was mainly investigated. It was shown that those who went through only with schools of compulsory education learned sewing most at home, least at school, and at private schools of sewing in between. For those who graduated from higher schools, the first rank of the means of learning sewing was “studying at private sewing schools”. The second was “taking courses at school” and the last was “being taught by people in the family”. The data collected in Hiroshima on item (3) was similar to that in Tokyo. Iwate had its own specialty.
